Word: prefabs
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...first encountered Thalía (pronounced Tah-LEE-ah) on "La Movida," a late-evening talk/variety program. About 20 at the time (1992), Thalía was already a showbiz veteran (she started in her first prefab band at the tender age of nine). Her look was what struck home first - a lithe, energetic brunette with a white streak running through the front of her manelike hair, clad in a series of outlandish, eye-catching outfits. Her songs were the next aspect to register - an assortment of well-crafted pop tunes with clearly salacious overtones. The coup de grace...
...keeping an eye out for Thalía on Spanish television. The discovery of her music videos quickly converted me into a camp follower. A little background: Ms. Sodi (Thalía was born Thalía Ariadna Sodi Miranda on August 26, 1972) first achieved fame in a prefab teen band called Timbiriche, a Menudo-esque combo. I have not been blown away by their performances, but they did make a noteworthy guest appearance on a rather startling 1987 Halloween special that has run over and over again on Galavision. "Noche de Brujas y Terror" ("Night of Witches...
...monuments and marble and Gilbert Stuarts, most of Washington does not resonate; it is, even now, too new and prefab and utilitarian and somehow raw (as political power is raw, as a change of administrations has its matter-of-fact brutality). But Georgetown, tucked to the side of all that, to the west of the rawness, has its trees and old brick row houses, with Montrose Park to the north and the C & O canal and the Potomac to the south, and a certain embowered resonance that suggests the secrets and traditions of power. Its axes, M Street and Wisconsin...
...City, the United Federation of Teachers is pouring $2 million into writing a core curriculum for its members; the first installment hits classrooms this fall. More than 6,000 of America's 88,000 public schools have gone a step further, buying into one of a dozen or so prefab curriculums, known as whole-school reforms, that blueprint everything from textbooks to teacher training...
Carnival 2000, by Britpop group Prefab Sprout, was the music I chose for my sound track. It clocks in at less than 4 min.--short enough, I thought, for me to go mad with tons of MTV-style quick cuts spliced together with the professional-looking transitions (such as fade-in and cross-dissolve) that iMovie provides...